Chapter 21: Leah

"Leah, come and see, what do you think of the silk I bought?" Just now, the Spanish woman draped the royal blue silk she had just bought over her body, and pulled the new Spanish girl to ask for an evaluation.

"Dear Aunt Monica, it's very beautiful, but if you can lose the fat on your waist, it may be even more beautiful!" The girl Leah said with a smile.

The Spanish woman named Monica stretched out her hand and gently slapped Lea on the shoulder, and scolded with a smile: "You dare to laugh at Aunt Monica, when she was young, she was no worse than you now, and the whole of Madrid knows the beauty of Auntie." ”

"Of course I know how beautiful Aunt Monica was back then, and even now you are not bad, Uncle Cruise often stares at you and wants to marry you."

"Phew, even if Cruise wants to beat me up, I won't marry him."

Ren Siqi found that this Spanish girl named Lea seemed to have a high status, all the Spanish women greeted her warmly, and even the Spanish men who were buying other goods at the stalls next to her secretly looked at her from time to time.

"How much does this silk cost?" After chatting with the Spanish women next to her for a while, Leah began to inquire about the price of silk again.

Ren Siqi saw that she was dressed very gorgeously, and she must be a rich lord.

"I didn't expect to see such a beautiful girl, and it is a girl who can speak the Ming language, your beauty is beyond my imagination. My name is Ren Siqi, you can call me Ren. Ren Siqi greeted Liya in Spanish, and stretched out his hand to shake hands with the girl, cheap and white, looking at this Liya's delicate little hand, it must feel very good to hold it! I have to say that Ren Siqi's Spanish has improved very quickly, and he has even learned to pat himself on the back.

"God! Your Spanish is so good. The girl Leah was very surprised, she rarely saw such a good Ming person who spoke Spanish, the girl grew up in Manila, she had seen a lot of Ming people, in her eyes the Ming people were very wooden, they were numerous but very exclusive, always self-contained, rarely in contact with the Spaniards, of course, they were also very hardworking and capable. The girl has also been in contact with a lot of Mingren, but every Mingren saw him with his head lowered, and he didn't dare to look at her directly, but the hot eyes of the Mingren in front of him looked at her like that, and the enthusiastic and unrestrained girl was a little shy, but he knew etiquette so well, like a gentleman in the West.

Looking at the big hand stretched out in front of her, Liya unconsciously stretched out her little hand.

Ren Siqi gently held the girl's little hand, slender, delicate, soft and slippery to the touch, pulled it up and put it to his mouth, kissed it gently, and a faint fragrance rushed straight to the end of his nose.

Xiong Er's jaw on the side of "snap" dropped, and he quickly caught it with his hand. Mao Shibai and several pirates under him also looked at Ren Siqi dumbfounded, and they all had one thought in their hearts, this talent was too bold to dare to insult the Spanish girl! Will there be Spanish men rushing over to fight?

Liya Jiao smiled and withdrew her little hand, but she didn't expect that this bright young man in front of her was really like a Western gentleman, and he actually knew the kiss ceremony, which made her have a good impression of Ren Siqi.

"Ren, I want to ask how this silk is sold?" Leah asked.

Liya took a fancy to a red silk with a cloud-like pattern embroidered on it, which was actually the silk used by Chinese brides to make wedding dresses when they got married, and God knows why Mao Eighteen bought this.

"Liya, your vision is so good, this is the best silk in Daming, the girls of Daming are willing to buy a silk like this when they get married, they will wear the wedding dress she made, dress up as the most beautiful, and marry their groom." Ren Siqi desperately praised the red silk horse and praised the girl's eyes.

"Really? That's great, tell me how much it is? I'm going to buy it for me, and my mom and sister Lilu will make a dress. The girl listened to Ren Siqi's words and was excited.

"You look as beautiful as a princess, I gave this red silk to the beautiful princess, how can you ask for money?" Ren Siqi held up the silk with both hands and was about to put it into the girl's arms.

"No, we Spaniards are not robbers, how can we buy things without giving money?" The girl refused to ask for the gift and insisted on giving money.

"This is the best silk in Daming, since you insist on giving money, give a cost price, fifty eagles!" Ren Siqi said.

The girl took a pink money bag from her belt, poured out a bunch of coins, counted fifty and put them in Ren Siqi's hand, picked up the red silk and left happily.

"Xiucai, you are such a beast, even beauties are slaughtered!" Mao 18 took the eagle and scolded Ren Siqi indignantly. The silk with a purchase price of one or two dollars made Ren Siqi sell fifty eagles, which is about more than thirty taels of silver, which has increased more than thirty times!

"If you don't want it, give it to me." Ren Siqi reached out to grab the eagle ocean.

"Who says I don't want to?" Mao 18 separated Ren Siqi's hand with his arm.

The goods carried by the crew themselves sold quickly, and they were sold out in less than a day. It seems that Manila is really out of stock, whether it is iron pots and shovels, wood lacquerware, satin cotton cloth, any goods can be sold quickly, and the price is not bad.

During the sale of goods, the Spanish tax collector of Manila City came to the dock and collected taxes from the crew, which was not much, only an eagle for a stall, and the crew paid it happily.

The crew happily returned to the Fuchun ship one by one, counting the Yingyang earned, each of them earned more than ten times the profit, and they all sighed that this trip to Manila was worth it. But when I think about the brothers who died on the sea, I am all gloomy in my heart. The goods of the dead crew members were also sold, and the silver sold would naturally be delivered to their families one by one, and no one would swallow the money of the dead brother.

This is how to do business at sea, there are unimaginable dangers at sea, pirates and storms will threaten the safety of ships and crews, but great risks also mean great profits.

It is this great profit that has prompted countless coastal people to rush to the vast sea one after another. No matter how strict the maritime ban policy of the Ming Dynasty was, it couldn't stop their fiery hearts.

Ren Siqi also got a lot, twenty horses of silk sold a total of about 800 eagles, twenty horses of Ren Siqi's five, deducting the capital owed to Mao eighteen, Ren Siqi earned a full 150 eagles, in exchange for silver taels about 110 taels.

When the crew sells goods, from time to time there are crew members who ask Ren Siqi to be a translator, and after making a lot of money, they are very generous, and often stuff one or two eagle oceans. Ren Siqi counted, and there were forty or fifty eagles in this part. In less than a month since he escaped from prison, he has gone from being penniless to now having nearly 200 eagles, worth more than 130 taels of silver, and in Ningbo City, the annual income of a medium-sized family is only 230 taels of silver, and a set of 2-entry houses is only 60 or 70 taels, which is really a lot of wealth.

Carefully put Yingyang into the money bag, Ren Siqi was full of emotion in his heart.